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Beard

“Caesar was Octavian’s passport to power”

Zanker

“The relationship with Apollo would be proven ideally suited to Augustus”

Beard

“Augustus could present the war as one fought against foreigner rather than Roman enemy”

Galinsky

“Augustus was anxious to get beyond memorises of civil wars”

Guyal

“He was a man of extraordinary acheivments”

Edwards

"Livia was the model against whom all subsequent wives of Roman emperors would have to compare themselves"

Wallace Hadrill

“In his statues he does not age. He is almost divine like the easy living gods”

Gallinsky

“Augustan golden age was dependent on the morality of Rome’s people”

Cooley

“By buildings such a massive tomb for himself at Rome, the young Caesar was eager to highlight the contrast between himself and Antony”